Ecological developmental biology : integrating epigenetics, medicine, and evolution /

"When the molecular processes of epigenetics meet the ecological processes of phenotypic plasticity, the result is a revolutionary new field: ecological developmental biology, or "eco-devo." This new science studies development in the "real world" of predators, pathogens, co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilbert, Scott F.
Other Authors: Epel, David
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c2009.
Subjects:
Phenotypic plasticity.
Developmental biology.
Epigenesis.
Evolution (Biology)
Epigenesis, Genetic.
Adaptation, Biological > genetics.
Endocrine Disruptors > adverse effects.
Environmental Pollution > adverse effects.
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental > physiology.
Teratogens.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The environment as a normal agent in producing phenotypes
  • 2. How agents in the environment effect molecular changes in development
  • 3. Developmental symbiosis: co-development as a strategy for life
  • 4. Embryonic defenses: survival in a hostile world
  • 5. Teratogenesis: environmental assaults on development
  • 6. Endocrine disruptors
  • 7. The epigenetic origin of adult diseases
  • 8. The modern synthesis: natural selection of allelic variation
  • 9. Evolution through developmental regulatory genes
  • 10. Environment, development, and evolution: toward a new synthesis
  • Coda: philosophical concerns raised by ecological developmental biology.

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